Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment’s respite deserve only the end of a rope.
L. Neil Smith
The View From North Central Idaho
Ramblings on explosives, guns, politics, and sex by a redneck Idaho farm boy who became a software engineer living near Seattle.
For those unfamiliar with LNS’s work you shoudl check out his first novel, Probability Broach which reminds me alot of Heinlein’s “Number of the Beast”.
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